Goonhub
08-13-2025, 11:23 PM
Often when someone dies, their body will be brought to cloning to get cloned, and the most logical way to dispose of the body is to reclaim it, specially since leaving a body laying around will eventually rot and spread miasma, or a wraith could devour it, or one of the other many antagonist that enjoys feasting on bodies could eat said body, so just disposing of it via reclaimer is the most logical thing to do, and what everyone does.
I believe there should be a re-work or a nerf to the reclaimer so it's used less, thus making the morgue, cremation, and overall space burials, we even have a digging system now for regular proper on station burials, more used. Bodies being harder to be disposed would also give the chaplain some extra work, being the one to haul the bodies from medbay to morgue or to it's burial site, and disposing of the body themselves. It would also open up a lot of new opportunities for gimmicks and for antags to mess around and take advantage of said bodies.
A suggestion someone mentioned in the discord would be the reclaimer refuses to eat bodies if the biomatter is maxed, thus if biomatter is maxed bodies would be stored in morgue until biomatter is no longer full and then be disposed of.
Another solution I thought of is the reclaimer no longer eats whole bodies, instead you need to remove the organs and now it only eats organs and meat, this means you would still be able to recycle the dead body for biomatter, by removing its organs, but you would not fully delete the body, still needing the other methods of getting rid of a body such as cremating, spacing or burying.
I believe there should be a re-work or a nerf to the reclaimer so it's used less, thus making the morgue, cremation, and overall space burials, we even have a digging system now for regular proper on station burials, more used. Bodies being harder to be disposed would also give the chaplain some extra work, being the one to haul the bodies from medbay to morgue or to it's burial site, and disposing of the body themselves. It would also open up a lot of new opportunities for gimmicks and for antags to mess around and take advantage of said bodies.
A suggestion someone mentioned in the discord would be the reclaimer refuses to eat bodies if the biomatter is maxed, thus if biomatter is maxed bodies would be stored in morgue until biomatter is no longer full and then be disposed of.
Another solution I thought of is the reclaimer no longer eats whole bodies, instead you need to remove the organs and now it only eats organs and meat, this means you would still be able to recycle the dead body for biomatter, by removing its organs, but you would not fully delete the body, still needing the other methods of getting rid of a body such as cremating, spacing or burying.